Animals living in the deepest ocean trenches have been found with plastic fragments in their gut, according to new research published Wednesday showing how manmade pollution reaches into the bowels of ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Two baseballs for a ...

Our oceans have been experiencing a plastic crisis for decades. We have now reached a pivotal moment in ocean pollution, where the numbers are no longer abstract and time is running out to make an ...

Every year, many millions of tons of plastic end up in the ocean. It's a serious and rapidly increasing environmental problem. Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) ...

Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...

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There is one material that pervades modern life more widely and in more forms than any other — and is simultaneously regarded ...

One material has become more widely and diversely used than any other in modern life — and is simultaneously regarded as the ...

Vishal Vivek, CEO & Co-founder of Ukhi, turning waste into compostable bioplastics to build a circular economy and end plastic pollution. Plastic’s core problem is not waste; it’s designed to be ...